A No-Nonsense Guide, telling How Combat Veterans Get PTSD, What PTSD IS, and How PTSD Changes Combat Veterans. This book is intended to be useful to five main areas of interest: 1- It is a clinical handbook for the psychology of PTSD; 2- It is a combat veteran's guide to understanding his or her PTSD and to derive healing; 3- It is a guide for family and friends of a combat veteran to find greater understanding of the veteran's problems; 4- By journaling as the veteran reads this book, he or she can realize real therapeutic gains in reducing the affect of PTSD; and 5- For WWII buffs, it provides a no-nonsense depiction of the way WWII really was.